| Scleralcyonacea | |
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| Chrysogorgia sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Octocorallia |
| Order: | Scleralcyonacea McFadden, van Ofwegen & Quattrini, 2022 |
| Synonyms | |
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Calcaxonia | |
Scleralcyonacea, previously referred to as Calcaxonia, is an order of soft corals in the class Octocorallia.
Families
Families belonging to the order include:
- Aulopsammiidae (Reuss, 1854)
- Briareidae (Gray, 1859)
- Chelidonisididae (Heestand Saucier, France & Watling, 2021)
- Chrysogorgiidae (Verrill, 1883)
- Coralliidae (Lamouroux, 1812)
- Cornulariidae (Dana, 1846)
- Dendrobrachiidae (Brook, 1889)
- Ellisellidae (Gray, 1859)
- Erythropodiidae (Kükenthal, 1916)
- Helioporidae (Moseley, 1876)
- Ideogorgiidae (McFadden, van Ofwegen & Quattrini, 2024)
- Ifalukellidae (Bayer, 1955)
- Isidoidae (Heestand Saucier, France & Watling, 2021)
- Keratoisididae (Gray, 1870)
- Mopseidae (Gray, 1870)
- Parasphaerascleridae (McFadden & van Ofwegen, 2013)
- Parisididae (Aurivillius, 1931)
References
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Scleralcyonacea". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
Bibliography
- Taxonomic Study of Suborder Calcaxonia (Alcyonacea: Octocorallia: Anthozoa) from King Sejong Station, Antarctic. Song Jun-Im, Hwang Sung-Jin, Moon Haewon and An In-Young, Animal Systematics, 30 Apr 2012, Evolution and Diversity Volume 28, Issue2, pages 84~96, doi:10.5635/ASED.2012.28.2.084
External links
Media related to Scleralcyonacea at Wikimedia Commons- {{EOL}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Calcaxonia | |
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